Wizards witches and letters

Jacks school play was the other week - an evening with Roald Dahl. His class have been practicing really hard at being witches and wizards.

It was in one of the local private schools and Jack needed to be there for 6pm, so both Jim and I were skipping out of work early for the occasion with Jack getting changed at after school club.

So we were going somewhere we sort of knew but not entirely, not a problem except for the torrential rain. After doing an unintentional tour of the colleage we eventually found where we were going to and parceled Jack off to his class group.

With just enough time to grab something to eat - sausage sizzle again and to say Hi to a few parents, we now sort of know because of the camping trip.

The show started off with the little preppies being Oompa Loompas - the whole audience of 600 were just cuted out as they came out in the costumes and sang their little song - bless them it seems such a long time since Jack did that and was so small.

Each class did their own little show with their favourite Roald Dahl book. The Grade 1's came on and I must admit we had huge grins when Jack and his little group came to the front to sing the witches convention national athem - we are the wicked witches, we all wear stripy britches, we make such nasty potions, we have such naughty notions.... well done Jack. He did really well.

They had a few technical problems during the show but the kids coped really well but by the end of it 9.30pm we were all ready to drop dead with hunger - so as the final goodbye the principal said that if the kids are a bit tired they can go in late the next day - oh yeah - we dont have jobs or bosses.... so out into the water logged field to collect the car.

So a quick trip to the pizza place we passed - Jim got soaked just getting out of the car as we scoffed pizzas into our empty bellys. A good night and Jack loved it but next year - somewhere closer and a lot shorter please!!!

Oh and letters - Jack has written letters to his pals in England and yesterday he got a beautifully written reply - with joined up writing no less from Matthew - its amazing - half a world away only 6 weeks in their ages and so much in common - Matthew had just spent his pocket money on Lego agents (Jack is currently saving up his pocket money to buy lego and just put lego agents on his christmas list), Matthew dressed as a skeleton at halloween, (snap so did Jack) and they both have wobbly teeth. And love Star Wars - the letter and envelope were covered in them and Jack practically danced around looking at them all. Its good to know - boys will be boys whereever they are.